India, Gender & The Naive Enquirer

[Jake Lloyd]

Hello all!

You might enjoy my latest interview on the 'How To Build Community' podcast. It charts the experience of a mental health nurse from New Zealand, who spent four years in India's rural north, training community health workers on counselling and gender violence. She talks about:

- the role of listening in reducing gender violence

- how to be an effective "outsider" in a community that you want to support

Last year, one study named India "the worst country in the world" to be a woman. This story finds some cause for hope: 

https://soundcloud.com/user-471889218/india-gender-the-naive-enquirer